Carnifax

No, it's the higher damage cap corruptors get too, along with higher base damage values. Fulc can cap easily in most cases anyway. However Vs AVs it can be harder to cap so Defender version could be better for AV fights. For a defender I'd go either Sonic, for the debuffage but cones are a bit fiddly with Kin, or PBAoE strong sets like Elec or Rad. Elec is good because you can be a sapper (although sapping isn't great in CoH).

Here's the Fire / Dark / Mace version. Poison Ray gives you the chance to slot Achilles (and does -Res itself anyway). Probably could rejig a little to squeeze yourself to the Ranged cap. Controller - Fire - Dark - Scorp.mbd

I've ransacked Carni's build (Ill / Dark). I've kept most of your powers. Personally I've a thing for playing some controllers in close, so I robbed my Epic set-up from my Ice / Traps & Elec / Poison (procced up Earth). Good thing here is that you're in close to heal the imps (I did drop most of the +Def sets from imps in favour of moar recharge). I went with Lockdown on Cinders. The +Ranged def is obviously nice. But also the proc is pretty much guarenteed to go off, meaning even bosses will be held for a few seconds, giving you a chance to follow up with Char. Personally I slot my Holds as Holds, so Char is 6 slotted with the ATO set, but lots of people proc them up. I dropped Arcane Bolt since I've Seismic & Fissure. You could drop Spirit Ward for it and rob the slots off Cages (and / or drop Cages completely, I personally don't like it either). Skipping Hotfeet I'm 50/50 about in this day and age, it's one of Fires signature powers but it does EAT Endurance and stuff dies quick anyway. Another option would be to go for Scorp PPP for the Shield and Poisonous Ray (and the pet if you like). PR is VERY strong procced up. That way you could stay Hover based like you want. You WILL occasionally be splatted as a melee controller, especially if you just jump in but that's part of the fun. I did take Howling because I love it, best sound in the game (maybe 2nd behind Rad Blasts Snipe). If you want to get really weird you can 5 slot it with procs So everything gets hurt, falls over and then is immobilized for a few seconds. Controller - Fire - Dark.mbd

Did that. Clicking link still does nothing. Baffled by this.

What happened to Mids while I was away? Trying to open these, click them and nothing happens. Whatever happened to Export to Forum and the nice Data links? Why was it replaced with whatever this is? Had the same issue trying to post a build for someone, just seemed to break the forum every time I posted. Don't like this.

My Time / Sonic defender has the Fort pet and uses her. Have it permaed because Time defender. Tried the Spiderlings on a Water / Temporal blaster but they were useless without the buffs one would need to keep them alive.

Hey folks This is back up and running now. Someone filled up my 30Gb disk with parses! Adding a job to murder old ones after 6 months which should make it behave.

For teammates yep. For you there is build use for this though, being able to go lighter on Acc. 5 Sting of Manticores, including the proc is just 22% acc normally. For other snipes I've to take the stupid Acc/Range/Interrupt to bring that up and skip the proc. You also get 3 procs in -Def & Acc -Def which gives some nice build options (especially coupled with the ATO set, which Corruptors & Defenders should slot 3 + 3 in two powers. Lots of room for a proc or two). Irradiate can take shedloads of the buggers. although that's more useful for a Defender.

As others have said it lends itself quite well to PBAoE. So any secondary which likes to be in close will do well. My Rad is a Rad / Devices and likes being in close. Quite fun. Corrupter secondaries it should work well with are therefore ones which like being in close : Nature, Rad, Traps, Kin (although I prefer Kin with a faster PBAoE nuke). Trick Arrow would work well too. TA has a great -ToHit power and doesn't really care if its in close or far away. Plus Rad will light Oil Slick for you. They work more reliably (because as they tick health down the next tick has more chance to Scourge). Rad doesn't have this. Only powers which roll to-hit for each DoT tick count. irradiate is a "normal" DoT. One hit check + scourge check at the start, if that hits the DoT and Scourge hit fully. If not they don't. On the plus side it means it doesn't matter if Irradiated mobs go running off or get scattered. The DoT will keep on DoTing. Nor does it trigger "avoid" in the mobs. Rains do, encouraging mobs to run out of it (a bane on my Ice/Fire blaster sometimes). Rad also has the coolest snipe in the game (fight me). Love it so much.

Quick build lob-up for Build Differently because Messaging doesn't like pasting in from Mids for some stupid reason (also waves to forum) This Hero build was built using Mids Reborn 3.4.7 https://github.com/LoadedCamel/MidsReborn Click this DataLink to open the build! Level 50 Science Tanker Primary Power Set: Radiation Armor Secondary Power Set: Staff Fighting Power Pool: Fighting Power Pool: Speed Power Pool: Leaping Power Pool: Leadership Ancillary Pool: Energy Mastery Hero Profile: Level 1: Alpha Barrier -- UnbGrd-ResDam(A), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx(3), UnbGrd-Rchg/ResDam(3), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(5), UnbGrd-EndRdx/Rchg(5), ImpArm-ResPsi(7) Level 1: Mercurial Blow -- SprBlsCol-Acc/Dmg(A), SprBlsCol-Dmg/EndRdx(7), SprBlsCol-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(31), SprBlsCol-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(34), SprBlsCol-Rchg/HoldProc(37) Level 2: Gamma Boost -- Prv-Absorb%(A), PrfShf-End%(9) Level 4: Proton Armor -- UnbGrd-ResDam(A), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx(9), UnbGrd-Rchg/ResDam(11), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(11), UnbGrd-EndRdx/Rchg(13), ImpArm-ResPsi(13) Level 6: Fallout Shelter -- UnbGrd-ResDam(A), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx(15), UnbGrd-Rchg/ResDam(15), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(17), ImpArm-ResPsi(25), UnbGrd-EndRdx/Rchg(31) Level 8: Radiation Therapy -- Prv-Heal/Rchg(A), Prv-Heal/Rchg/EndRdx(17), Obl-%Dam(19), Erd-%Dam(19), Arm-Dam%(21), ThfofEss-+End%(43) Level 10: Guarded Spin -- SprMghoft-Rchg/Res%(A), SprMghoft-Acc/Dmg(34), SprMghoft-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(46), SprMghoft-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(48), SprMghoft-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(48) Level 12: Taunt -- PrfZng-Taunt/Rchg/Rng(A) Level 14: Beta Decay -- AchHee-ResDeb%(A) Level 16: Eye of the Storm -- OvrFrc-Dam/KB(A), FrcFdb-Rechg%(21), Obl-%Dam(33), HO:Nucle(46), HO:Nucle(47), Erd-%Dam(47) Level 18: Particle Shielding -- Prv-Heal/Rchg(A), Prv-Heal/Rchg/EndRdx(23), DctWnd-Heal/Rchg(23), DctWnd-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(25) Level 20: Staff Mastery Level 22: Kick -- Empty(A) Level 24: Tough -- UnbGrd-ResDam(A), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx(36), UnbGrd-Max HP%(36), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(36), ImpArm-ResPsi(37), StdPrt-ResDam/Def+(37) Level 26: Ground Zero -- Arm-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(A), Arm-Dmg/Rchg(27), AchHee-ResDeb%(27), TchofLadG-%Dam(29), Erd-%Dam(29), ShlBrk-%Dam(33) Level 28: Weave -- Rct-ResDam%(A), LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(39), ShlWal-ResDam/Re TP(39) Level 30: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(31) Level 32: Sky Splitter -- Hct-Dam%(A), Hct-Dmg(42), Hct-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(43), TchofDth-Dam%(43), TchofDth-Acc/Dmg(45), PrfZng-Dam%(45) Level 35: Innocuous Strikes -- SprGntFis-Acc/Dmg(A), SprGntFis-Dmg/Rchg(39), SprGntFis-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(40), SprGntFis-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(40), SprGntFis-Rchg/+Absorb(40), Empty(42) Level 38: Focused Accuracy -- EndRdx-I(A) Level 41: Meltdown -- GldArm-3defTpProc(A), ImpArm-ResPsi(33), Ags-Psi/Status(34) Level 44: Combat Jumping -- LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(A), WntGif-ResSlow(42), Ksm-ToHit+(48) Level 47: Maneuvers -- LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(A), DefBuff-I(49), LucoftheG-Def/EndRdx(49) Level 49: Tactics -- RctRtc-Pcptn(A) Level 1: Gauntlet Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A) Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A) Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A) Level 1: Swift -- Empty(A) Level 1: Hurdle -- Empty(A) Level 1: Health -- Pnc-Heal/+End(A) Level 1: Stamina -- PrfShf-End%(A), PrfShf-EndMod(46) Level 1: Combo Level 1 Level 1: Combo Level 2 Level 1: Combo Level 3 Level 50: Void Radial Final Judgement Level 50: Reactive Radial Flawless Interface Level 50: Knives of Vengeance Radial Superior Ally Level 50: Ageless Radial Epiphany Level 50: Assault Radial Embodiment Level 50: Musculature Radial Paragon Level 20: Form of the Body Level 20: Form of the Mind Level 20: Form of the Soul ------------

Yep. Confirmed myself too a couple of weeks ago when I was testing what worked well for sapping. Acid was the answer, it makes your end drain about 33% more effective (on the final figure). EMP didn't do anything Ice I think lowered their max end but in-game that was useless (97 end rather than 100). Was expecting more from it. One thing the guide doesn't mention: Ice & Acid are good for proccing

For pets the rule is kind of "if their power could use the IO type the damage proc will try and fire". For Audrey for example I think two of her attacks do -Def (fling thorns & bite) so a -Def damage proc and Achilles heel will roll to proc on enemies hit by those attacks. So on my plant Storm it's 4 recharge intensive pets, Shield breaker and Achilles. Nothing amazing, you won't be laying -20% -resist to every enemy you see but a nice effect. This is also why -ToHit procs are useful on Dark fluffy, all their attacks (except the hold) do -ToHit. That said, I've parsed fluffy and it's not completely nuts (individual PAs and Phantasm still do way more damage). The pet set auras count for all your pets, as long as theyre reasonably close. The purple chance for buildup. So if you stick it into Fire imps it'll try and fire every time they do damage and it'll boost just that imp. But they all roll individually (really good in PAs too).

Dual Pistols on a corruptor. Dunno why. Elec on a Defender because better sappage. Also Rad Blast on a blaster is the only time I've got it working well. Tried Defender and Corruptor but on a blaster the increased damage really seems to suit it and brings it above some mysterious threshold for me.

Totally agree with this. I try to avoid duplicating / re-using sets but I had so much fun with Grav/Trick arrow on live I remade them here. Then they got buffed which made it even better. So I ended up making a Trick Arrow/Elec sapping defender. The weird thing is they play differently. Grav/TA is "I'm staying hovering up here, ye go here and now you're all neutered" Trick Arrow/Elec is more "waaaaargh, I'm following the tank into the melee scrum. Point blank arrow to face. Crackle zap". I think it's the TA animations are so quick. Just feels "buttery" to use them. Other debuff sets take aaaaages to do things (waves at Dark). TA is just debuff-debuff-debuffAndNowYoureAllOnFire.

I'd go "ignore sets, slot for damage 1st then proc it out" 2 Acc/Dam HOs, Hecatomb Dam, Hecatomb purple Proc, Unbreakable Constraint purple proc & Ghost Widow proc for example = "I use you rarely but when I do things die". According to mids that has the edge over 1 Acc IO + 2 purple procs + 3 other procs (GW, Neuronic & Touch of Death). My Water blaster is Temporal but that's roughly what I went for on Future Pain for the same reason (except I had to use melee & fear procs since it doesn't take Hold sets). Water isn't great on single target damage even with double-tap Water Jet (I went 4 Thunderstrikes there, avoiding recharge as much as I could, then Apoc purple and the Glad proc) so a big hard hitting melee attack is useful for tough things like +4 bosses, EBs or AVs.

Well it was more Heavy over Seismic I was wondering about. As much as I love Hammer Time Seismic is a stronger choice overall (even if the Hold isn't a Mag 4 one-boss-hold like the Controller version).

Tidal gives a big damage boost to your nuke. It adds extra BASE damage, so that means Buildup (& Gaussians) will boost it even more. It'll also stun everything (if anything survives). So I'd always be taking both. Not sure why the OP didn't take Seismic. It's generally the hardest hitting single target attack both in terms of raw damage and dam/animation. And it's proc friendly (it can take the purple Hold damage proc for example).

When did "+0 if not stated" become a thing? I've never assumed that, but I do TFs on Réunion and typically with the same folk so I expect the pre-start debate instead.

Crosspunch is better than GIS. Downside is it can't take ATOs. Looking at my mids build Crit Strikes went into Frost. So Frost opener into Freezing or Frozen Aura.

Yup. Game seems to figure out your total resists first and that's the figure used to resist all the debuffs. And your resist over the cap is debuffed from before the cap is applied (like when you overslot Defense as a buffer) I spent an hour on my Inv stalker with a gang of Wailers in St Martial (lovely people, bit noisy) checking / figuring it out. I'd initially used my Fire tank but they couldn't budge him below the cap. Stalker was a better test because of the 75% cap, my s/l wasn't at 100% uncapped and I could check weakers resists too.

What are you parsing? My site goes through the chatlogs to do the combat parsing but the first step is stripping out the non-combat chat entries. Originally I was dumping them into another file but I started deleting them instead for privacy reasons

The Bank said it has some clearance fee associated with it, so if you send me 250 million that should clear it.

Look you two, I know I'm being dim but not that dim.

Hmmm. Fair enough, that was a third char (why do I have so many crafted Erads? Was I being markety?) Can't check the original offender because I AHed them instead anyway. I'll assume I was being dim in some way.

Nope. Bog standard commons. Tried 2 different characters on two different servers. Did /leaveteam just in case. Tried the Vendor in AP and the one in RWZ. "You cannot sell this here" in all cases. Very weird. Still happening even with another char (no, I've no idea why I've so many Eradications either)